postpones
Saypohst-POHNZUS/poʊstˈpoʊnz/UK/pəʊstˈpəʊnz/
- 1Third-person singular simple present of postpone.
The committee postpones any vote until all members are present.
Bad weather frequently postpones the morning ferry to the island.
Note
A regular present-tense form: the -s attaches to the unchanged stem whenever the subject is singular, such as the committee or bad weather, while plural subjects take bare postpone. It needs an object, because something is always being put off, and until often marks the new time. An older meaning, now obsolete, was to rank one thing after another and treat it as less important. You will meet that use only in older writing.
postpones is a form of postpone
postpone, verb: To delay an event, appointment, or activity until a later time. Full entry
- Forms
- postponepostpones he/she/itpostponing -ing formpostponed past tense, past participle
- Spelling
- postpone → postpones: add -s
- Sound
- The ending sounds like /z/.
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